This is when things started to go south:
from HP site:
"Hewlett-Packard Digital Imaging recently decided to
eliminate the Software
Developer Support Program managed by Sykes in Greeley,
Colorado, effective
August 1, 2001. The program managed external requests to
Hewlett-Packard for
both Windows and non-Windows based development (such as UNIX
(R), OS2, DOS,
and Linux).
They had a perfectly logical system which dated back to at
least 1986
called SCL. After 2001 they limited the use of SCL to
Multi-Function
Peripherals. It's not just HP, none of the scanners I've
seen for sale
in stores in the last couple of years had any linux support.
Even the
CCD signal processor chip has no data sheet available.. at
least in
the case of the HP 5200C.
It's not the fact that there are no linux drivers that
bothers me, it's
the fact that the manufacturer doesn't _currently_ give out
programming
documention for their devices. Having said that a couple of
folks
from DSPP did help me on some of the older devices.
Going out and buying a scanner without checking the net
first is
like getting shot out of a cannon and not checking to see if
there's
a safety net. Check first, or spend countless hours trying
to reverse
engineer or beg for programming specs. I wrote a letter to
Hurd's
predecessor years ago and nothing happened.
Mark
On August 18, 2006 08:04 am, Dean Loros wrote:
> I have HPlip installed on my system--if only scanners
were included in
> the supported devices. From what I see looking here,
there seems to be a
> large number of scanners in the current offerings of
HP's that only have
> partial function or none at all--hence I decided to
tilt my lance at the
> windmill.
>
> Dean Loros
>
> > Only for your information:
> > At least for very most HP printers and all-in-one
devices there is
> > really good and active Linux support for printing
and scanning, see
> > http://hplip.sourceforg
e.net/
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Johannes Meixner
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